George Richard LUNN

(1873-1948)

LUNN, George Richard, a
Representative from New York; born near Lenox, Taylor County, Iowa,
June 23, 1873; attended the public schools at Lenox and Des Moines,
Iowa; was graduated from Bellevue College, Bellevue, Nebr., in
1897; during the Spanish-American War served as corporal in Company
I, Third Nebraska Regiment; pursued postgraduate work in Princeton,
New York, and Columbia Universities; was graduated from Union
Theological Seminary, New York City, in 1901; pastor of churches in
Brooklyn and Schenectady, N.Y., 1901-1914; served as mayor of
Schenectady in 1912, 1913, 1916, and 1917; elected as a Democrat to
the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1919);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth
Congress; mayor of Schenectady in 1920 and served until January 1,
1923, when he resigned; delegate to the Democratic National
Conventions in 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1936; Lieutenant
Governor of New York in 1923 and 1924; appointed public service
commissioner of the State of New York in 1925, and served in that
capacity until 1942 when he resigned due to ill health; died in
Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., November 27, 1948; interment in Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present